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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Sure, you might search on Twitter.com but how many of you search in Tweetie or UberTwitter often?

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Bill doesn’t think you should over invest in them but he does believe in protecting ideas when you have a true invention and many of his companies have done so. We talked about patents.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Additionally, they might do a lot of paid search advertising and as a result want to get better ROI on their paid search and see which keywords are generating phone calls and revenue for them. We wanted our investors to have great reputations among their portfolio companies and we wanted a fair set of investment terms.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

And And after 30 years of Venture investing we still have a hard time articulating why. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. The challenge, of course, partially lies in the definition of “good design&#. That crazy chicken. Yes we can!

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Interview with Scott Morrow, Curatemedia

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We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. As part of that move, the firm created a parent firm called Curatemedia (www.curatemedia.com), to oversee ThisNext, Stylehive, and other efforts.

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

socalTECH

He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company. He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies. READ MORE>>.